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The Next Level

Everything Is Good. Too Good. (The Secret Podcast PREVIEW)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Bill Kristol talk about the unsettling feeling that the campaign is going . . . really well.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone it's JVL here with Bill Crystal sitting in for Sarah Longwell.

0:08.6

Sarah is still out on assignment. Bill it's good to catch up.

0:13.0

Good to see you, JPL.

0:15.0

Well, are you a little bit concerned at how well everything is going?

0:20.0

Because I am.

0:22.0

Of course. The hairs on the back of my neck standing up.

0:24.0

Yeah, we're, I'm kind of with you in the glass half empty camp in life in general. I suppose, maybe not life in general.

0:31.0

That seems a little too much but certainly in politics and

0:34.9

certainly in politics in the last decade in the United States of America right I mean yeah

0:38.8

it is worth remembering that all kinds of things have happened that we all have told ourselves I think you less so because you were more worried from the very beginning.

0:46.5

Me too. I would say I was worried from the beginning.

0:48.5

Many of our friends all told themselves.

0:50.5

Understandably that can't happen here no way and kept on happening here and I hope

0:56.6

it can't happen again and but I never never say never and look I mean she's so the good news to me was

1:05.8

Biden's withdrawal was was good

1:09.6

Harris is at a very good first what do we we now, three and a half weeks, right?

1:13.3

Almost four weeks.

1:14.0

Yeah, almost a month.

1:15.0

Yeah, almost a month.

1:16.0

Yeah, almost a month.

1:17.0

And Wallace has been a good VP pick, and Trump has been rattled, I think office game and Harris has picked up I don't

1:26.2

know five points or so net I would say Biden was probably down three she's now up

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